The 41-year-old Giffords has spent the last year in Houston undergoing intensive physical and speech therapy. Doctors and family have called her recovery miraculous after the Jan. 8 shooting; she is able to walk and talk, vote in Congress and gave a televised interview to ABC’s Diane Sawyer in May. But doctors have said it would take many months to determine the lasting effects of her brain injury. The three-term congresswoman has four months to decide whether to seek re-election.

Why doesn’t her husband do the right thing by this unfortunate woman and stop the charade, face reality and get along in their new private life?

I loved Rick Perry’s Iraq response. This man should be the frontrunner. Everyone always takes the easy way out, saying what they wouldn’t do and criticising what has been done in the past. When Rick Perry said he would send troops back into Iraq, I jumped out of my seat hollering for him.

Perry doesn’t think “what’s the popular thing to say” he says what he believes, like it or not.

jenny said...Alan, fuck you and your shitbat, you pompous fraud. We get it you are super-jew. You are nothing else.

Sat Jan 07, 10:28:00 PM EST

Hon, we covered this some weeks ago. I called you and your posse out. You crawled back into your bottle. The boys, well, they pondered whether my challenge were some sort of brilliant Jewish advertising scheme (It never occurring to them that when one guy routinely posts more than 40% of all comments to the applause of three simians, there is no target audience.)

To her credit, one person on this site had the guts to call me and man up. That was Melody, who called twice. Our exchange was pleasant.

By the way, Melody, the root-word “mel” has its origin in Latin, meaning “honey”. Best

It's not that allen is a fraud, even a pompous one, and a super-jew, though he isn't, but thinks he is, it is that he violates his own strictures by going about and slandering people. In their literature, slandering is a kind of killing, an idea found all through literature, and maybe not original with them.

"it is that he [allen] violates his own strictures by going about and slandering people."

allen gave a considered upon based upon observation of pathologic behavior. Hardly a day passes here without someone referencing the outlandish behavior that led to your censure and banishment. A guy who will stalk and psychologically harm one woman will do the same to others - those others are often "family" and "friends".

And bob, since my motive was to have you banned from this site for the purpose of therapy (your suicidal ideation) and to foreclose you from any longer inflicting your perverse harm on a perfectly innocent woman (the subject of your fixation), slander is in the eye of the beholder.

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, and also Reichskristallnacht, Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom or series of co-ordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening.[1] The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.[2]At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and a further 30,000 arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.[2] Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.[3] Over 1,000 synagogues were burned (95 in Vienna alone), and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.[4][5]

so Herr Rodent, when 1000 mosques are burned and the death toll is the same speak up, til then?

It works! Posting from Deerwood Mn. In a hotel room from my wifes Nook.My Fathhers funeral is tomorrow. He was the most honest and patient people in the world, and I never appreciated him until I had a Family of my own.

At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and a further 30,000 arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.[2] Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.[3] Over 1,000 synagogues were burned (95 in Vienna alone), and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.[4][5]

The Sabra and Shatila massacre took place in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon between September 16 and September 18, 1982, during the Lebanese civil war. Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were massacred in the camps by Christian Lebanese Phalangists while the camp was surrounded by the Israel Defense Force. In that period of time, Israel was at war with the PLO in Lebanon. Israeli forces occupied Beirut, controlled the entrances to the refugee camps of Palestinians and controlled the entrance to the city. After the assassination of Bachir Gemayel, leader and president-elect of the Lebanese Kataeb Party, a Maronite group, also called Lebanese Forces militia group, entered the camp and murdered inhabitants during the night. The exact number of victims is disputed, from 700–800 to 3,500 (depending on the source).

Israeli forces enabled the entrance of the Kataeb Party militia to the refugee camps by firing illuminating flares over the camps.[2][3] The Phalangists were under the direct command of Elie Hobeika, who later became a long-serving Member of the Parliament of Lebanon and, in the 1990s, a Lebanese cabinet minister.

In 1982, an independent commission chaired by Sean MacBride concluded that the Israeli authorities or forces were, directly or indirectly, responsible.[4] The Israeli government established the Kahan Commission to investigate, and in early 1983 it found that Israeli military personnel were aware that a massacre was in progress without taking serious steps to stop it. Therefore it regarded Israel as having indirect responsibility. The commission held Ariel Sharon personally responsible for having disregarded the prospect of acts of bloodshed by the Phalangists against the population of the refugee camps and not preventing their entry.[5]

"In October, Colbert offered the Republican Party in South Carolina $400,000 to defray the cost of the presidential primary there in January in return for naming rights — he wanted the ballots, the lanyards, the press credentials to say “The Stephen Colbert Super PAC South Carolina Primary” — and for a nonbinding referendum question that asked the voters to decide whether “corporations are people” or “only people are people.” This issue has been Colbert’s hobbyhorse since August, when Mitt Romney told a heckler that “corporations are people, my friend,” and needless to say, Colbert too is on the side of corporate personhood. “Just because someone was born in a lawyer’s office and is incorporeal doesn’t mean he should have no rights,” he likes to say.

“I figured that if they’d sell me the naming rights, they’d probably be willing to sell me a referendum,” Colbert told me. “I always assume that anything that could be for sale probably is.”

Amazingly, the South Carolina Republicans were on the point of agreeing to Colbert’s proposal, and ballots were printed that included the referendum question, when the state Supreme Court ruled that the counties, not the party, had to pay for the primary and that the ballot could not include referendum questions. When the Republicans declined to pursue the matter, Colbert made the same offer to the state’s Democrats, who filed an appeal. Even Colbert seemed a little surprised, pointing out that he had repeatedly warned both the Republicans and the Democrats that his aims were satirical and that their very willingness to negotiate with him could become a joke on the show. “It turns out that both sides are happy to take my money,” he said. "

The world's attention to the above mentioned incident was unprecedented. 800 - 3000 palestinians were murdered by lebanese christians in retaliation for palestinian murders several days previous...

in context: The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية‎) was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon. The war lasted from 1975 to 1990 and resulted in an estimated 150,000 to 230,000 civilian fatalities. Another one million people (a quarter of the population) were wounded, and today approximately 350,000 people remain displaced.The Lebanese civil war is a bloody war and conflict is complex lasted for more than 16 years and 7 months in Lebanon.

Lebanon's religious divisions are extremely complicated, and the country is made up by a multitude of religious groupings. The ecclesiastical and demographic patterns of the sects are complex. Divisions and rivalries between groups date back as far as 15 centuries, and still are a factor today. The pattern of settlement has changed little since the 7th century, but instances of civil strife and ethnic cleansing, most recently during the Lebanese Civil War, has brought some important changes to the religious map of the country. (See also History of Lebanon.)

Lebanon has by far the largest proportion of Christians of any Arab country, but both Christians and Muslims are sub-divided into many splinter sects. All population statistics are by necessity controversial, and all sects have a vested interest in inflating their own numbers. Sunnis, Shi'as and Maronites (the three largest sects) all often claim that their particular religious affiliation holds a majority in the country, adding up to over 150% of the total population, even before counting the other sects. One of the rare things that most Lebanese religious leaders will agree on is to avoid a new general census, for fear that it could trigger a new round of sectarian conflict. The last official census was performed in 1932.

Religion has traditionally been of overriding importance in defining the Lebanese population. Dividing state power between the religious sects, and granting religious authorities judicial power, dates back to Ottoman times (the millet system). The practice was re-inforced during French mandate, when Christian groups were granted privileges. This system of government, while partly intended as a compromise between sectarian demands, has caused tensions that still dominate Lebanese politics to this day.

The Christian population majority is believed to have ended in the early 1930s, but government leaders would agree to no change in the political power balance. This led to Muslim demands of increased representation, and the constant sectarian tension slid into violent conflict in 1958 (prompting U.S. intervention) and again in the grueling Lebanese Civil War, in 1975–90.

The balance of power has been slightly adjusted in the 1943 National Pact, an informal agreement struck at independence, in which positions of power were divided according to the 1932 census. The Sunni elite was then accorded more power, but Maronites continued to dominate the system. The sectarian balance was again adjusted towards the Muslim side but simultaneously further reinforced and legitimized. Shi'a Muslims (by now the largest sect) then gained additional representation in the state apparatus, and the obligatory Christian-Muslim representation in Parliament was downgraded from a 6:5 to a 1:1 ratio. Christians of various sects were then generally thought to constitute about 40% of the population, although often Muslim leaders would cite lower numbers, and some Christians would claim that they still held a majority of the population.[edit] The 18 recognized sects

The present Lebanese Constitution officially acknowledges 18 religious groups (see below). These have the right to handle family law according to their own courts and traditions, and they are the basic players in Lebanon's complex sectarian politics. Still, it is important to note that these groups are not internally homogeneous; for example, the Maronite, Shi'a and Druze communities have been wracked by internal fighting even in recent times.

The present Lebanese Constitution officially acknowledges 18 religious groups (see below). These have the right to handle family law according to their own courts and traditions, and they are the basic players in Lebanon's complex sectarian politics.

"She at one point said that the Jews deserved to be genocided as punishment by G-d for rejecting Jesus.

That shows no soul, no ethical thoughts."

That is rich coming from you, dude, who constantly and consistently urge similar actions to be taken against Muslims. In her case she probably cited the old testament in one of her 'clever' moments, you, on the other hand, make numerous posts displaying your bigotry and hateful murderous soul.

"In this Torah, which is Jesus himself, the abiding essence of what was inscribed on the stone tablets at Sinai is now written in living flesh, namely, the twofold commandment of love. . . . To imitate him, to follow him in discipleship, is therefore to keep Torah, which has been fulfilled in him once and for all. Thus the Sinai covenant is indeed superseded. But once what was provisional in it has been swept away, we see what is truly definitive in it." -- Pope Benedict XVI

ash: That is rich coming from you, dude, who constantly and consistently urge similar actions to be taken against Muslims. In her case she probably cited the old testament in one of her 'clever' moments, you, on the other hand, make numerous posts displaying your bigotry and hateful murderous soul.

Only read further if you can stand the truth. Me? I'm going back to bed now.

BECAUSE I, AM A HISTORY BUFF I LOOKED UP "MITHRA-ISM AND BAAL" THESE TWO WORDS ON THE INTERNET AND THE INFORMATION THAT I GOT THE "WATCH DOG" ON THE INTERNET WOULD NOT LET THIS INFORMATION GO THROUGH AND IT BOUNCED BACK, SO PERHAPS IN THIS WAY YOU CAN LOOK THESE WORDS UP YOURSELVES.

YOU ONLY NEED TO TYPE IN THIS ONE WORD: 'mithra" OR "baal" IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT A GREAT "SIZE" CHURCH AND CONJURATION COULD BE FOOLED LIKE IT HAS.

“I see Terence Jeffrey and Andy McCarthy are having a disagreement about the correct response to a question on gay adoption. The correct response is to take an unconstitutional federally-funded supersized condom, roll it over George Stephanopoulos’ head, and say, ‘That’s odd. I can no longer hear a word you’re saying. So let me throw in my two bits on impending multi-trillion-dollar ruin…’”

The question at hand was had "...DR and Quirk, discussed the implications of this with reference to lead generation."

From my response (about five posts above) at Sun Jan 08, 01:23:00 PM EST and the two posts Allen has put up here, I will leave it to the bar to judge whether rat and I were having a discussion or whether I was merely laughing my ass off because once again rat made Allen look like a dufus.

Continuing on in his apparently confused state, Allen then puts up this bizarre juxtaposition of further posts in support of his assertion.

...sorry to disappoint...I've never needed an avatar or a stage name. I am, in fact, allen...

Allen is readily reached, day or night. He has served on legislative committees and on the board of his synagogue, among other things. Allen has no fear of vermin - virtual or on two-four legs…

Wed Dec 07, 10:23:00 AM EST

allen said...Quirk,

Re: "nitwit"

...don't have time to play, today...deal making in Boulder...keep up the good work...I will.

:-D)))Thu Dec 08, 12:42:00 PM EST

Quirk said....

Good man, keep those priorities straight.

Thu Dec 08, 04:20:00 PM EST

What any of this has to do with me and rat having a discussion about Allen is anyone’s guess. But that's typical Allen. Truly bizarre.

Of these last four, the first two are merely rat and Allen continuing their little conversation.

The next one involving me was merely Allen's non-response to my comment that anyone trying to compare the Liberty to the Hasan shootings in Texas was a nitwit. Obviously, completely unrelated to the current subject at hand.

The last post Allen put up of Quirk said...at Thu Dec 08, 04:20:00 PM EST is merely one of a series of concurrent posts between Rufus and I involving alternative energy investment and his new baby.

Most people wouldn't see any connection between this last and the subject under discussion; however, apparently in Allen-world every post is somehow an attack on him.

On numerous occasions Allen has assaulted the bar with his own pompous and pedantic worldview. We have come to accept the inaccuracies, logical fallacies, and race-baiting as merely Allen doing his thing. However, this latest example when combined with that out of control bender he graced us with at around the same time as the real estate office fiasco, forces one to consider the possibility that the boy is completely losing it.

Interesting given the psychological analysis he was offering Bob above.

Santorum and Gingrich probably realize that the "career politician" issue is not going to make much, if any, difference to Republican voters, and certainly won't matter in a general election. And Gingrich's critique, while effective, used language that probably turned off some Republican voters who sympathized with his point.

But Sunday's debate was the underdogs' last chance at Romney before Tuesday's primary. They did some venting.

And with a full night's sleep, they at least did it as best they could.

"Mitt Romney absorbed their best shots and came out stronger," Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom said.

Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller disagreed.

"Jon Huntsman won this morning's debate in Concord by distinguishing himself to voters in New Hampshire and around the nation that he is the leader who can unify the American people, renew trust in their elected leaders, fix our economy, and move our country forward."

David Gregory’s invitation to the Republicans to name three areas in which voters will feel pain from their proposals shows his mindset: Republican policies hurt people, Democratic policies help them. Would he ask an equivalent question of Democratic candidates?

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Many conservatives—and some of the candidates this morning—are complaining about liberal media questioners, and with good cause. But there is something to be said for having hostile questioners: it sharpens Republican candidates, makes them figure out how to turn questions around and answer them in ways that frame the issue their way.

Democratic candidates tend not to get this kind of practice and can go into general election contests less prepared to make their case.

In other news........ we all remember when KFC offered a "Hillary"meal,consisting of 2 small breasts and 2 large thighs.Now, KFC is offering the "Obama Cabinet Bucket". It consists of nothingbut left wings and chicken shit.

The small Alaska fishing town of Cordova is used to dealing with excessive snow — but not like this. Residents have turned to the state to help them dig out of record snow levels that have collapsed roofs, triggered avalanches and even covered doors, trapping some people in their homes.

Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has given $5 million to an independent committee supporting GOP presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich, the first of what is expected to be many millions the Las Vegas billionaire plans to spend this election year.

The check from Adelson is the latest in an avalanche of campaign cash flooding the presidential season to independent groups known as Super PACs The check was cut on Friday to Winning Our Future, a group run by former Gingrich associates, according to two people close to the donor.

A person close to Adelson said that the billionaire planned to spend at least another $5 million during the campaign — either to the Gingrich-linked group or to the winner of the Republican nomination for president — and that the initial check was intended to keep Gingrich competitive in the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary.

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Jon Huntsman both want the second ticket out of New Hampshire, and they've taken to mocking each other in the days leading up to the election in an apparent competition for independent votes.

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Paul's campaign countered by turning Huntsman's admitted hesitation at the idea of voting for Paul into an attack on his time serving as President Obama's ambassador to China. "Maybe that's because [Huntsman] probably favors his old boss, whom he calls 'a great leader,'" Paul's spokesman suggested.

In a show of strength before Tuesday's primary, Mitt Romney Sunday night rally here, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R- N.H.

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“If she wasn’t so blinded by her Barack Obama-induced anger, she’d know that American jobs are coming back when Mitt Romney is president" Christie said of one of the female protesters. "If she wasn’t so disoriented by the loss of hope and change, she’d understand that Mitt Romney is the hope for America’s future."

Not only has China been making the long-range plans normally considered one of the benefits of a democratically elected government in an industrialized nation, but while we have dithered, China is now scaling up those ambitions exponentially. China added so much wind so fast that last year it became the world leader.

Now it plans 200 GW by 2020, and 1,000 GW by 2050. To get an idea of the vast scale-up of this level of ambition, look at what China was timidly planning in 2007, based on little experience with wind, in its previous five-year plan.

“Given current policies” China said, back in 2007, “China’s installed capacity of wind energy could reach 50 GW by 2020, accounting for about 4% of the total installed generation capacity.”

As of December, 2010, China then had installed 25 GW of wind – and planned to raise its sights from 50 to 150 GW by 2020.

A year later in December 2011, with 42 GW of wind installed, China had become the world leader in wind power, overtaking the US, which had overtaken Germany several years previously.

Now The National Energy Administration of China has just released new plans to revise upward once more its 2020 target, first set at 50 GW, to 200 GW, 400 GW by 2030 and and 1,000 GW (1,000,000 MW) by 2050.

Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/1595G)

Not only has China been making the long-range plans normally considered one of the benefits of a democratically elected government in an industrialized nation, but while we have dithered, China is now scaling up those ambitions exponentially. China added so much wind so fast that last year it became the world leader.

Now it plans 200 GW by 2020, and 1,000 GW by 2050. To get an idea of the vast scale-up of this level of ambition, look at what China was timidly planning in 2007, based on little experience with wind, in its previous five-year plan.

“Given current policies” China said, back in 2007, “China’s installed capacity of wind energy could reach 50 GW by 2020, accounting for about 4% of the total installed generation capacity.”

As of December, 2010, China then had installed 25 GW of wind – and planned to raise its sights from 50 to 150 GW by 2020.

A year later in December 2011, with 42 GW of wind installed, China had become the world leader in wind power, overtaking the US, which had overtaken Germany several years previously.

Now The National Energy Administration of China has just released new plans to revise upward once more its 2020 target, first set at 50 GW, to 200 GW, 400 GW by 2030 and and 1,000 GW (1,000,000 MW) by 2050.

The study said many are likely to supplement their income buying and selling goods on websites like eBay, while others will turn their front rooms into offices or cottage industry workshops or a nursery. Those with manual skills might set up gardening or home help businesses to make money helping neighbours, academics predicted.

A total of 59 per cent said they would run "a small, one-person business from home" and 21 per cent would consider gardening for elderly neighbours or for the local council.

One third said they would rent out a spare room to a lodger, and 14 per cent said they would think about moving in with other family members.

This future can already been seen in fiscally challenged California. The state should be leading a recovery, not lagging behind the rest of the country.

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A nightmare scenario would be a constitutional crisis pitting a relentless executive power against a disgruntled, alienated opposition lacking strong, intelligent leadership. Over time, the new authoritarians would elicit even more opposition from the “dodos” who make up the majority of Americans residing in the great landmass outside the coastal strips and Chicago.

The legacy of the Obama years—once so breathlessly associated with hope and reconciliation—may instead be growing pessimism and polarization.

Mitt Romney’s privileged pedigree was common knowledge to his classmates at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, where he was simultaneously enrolled in 1971 through a joint-degree program. By that time, his father, George Romney, had run a major corporation (American Motors), been elected three times as Michigan’s governor, sought the presidency, and been appointed to President Nixon’s Cabinet.

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To Mitt, the special one in the house was Ann, with her wide smile, piercing eyes, and steadying domestic presence. And woe was the boy who forgot it.

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If Romney is exceedingly comfortable around family and close friends, he’s much less so around those he doesn’t know well, drawing a boundary that’s difficult to traverse. It’s a strict social order—us and them—that has put co-workers, political aides, casual acquaintances, and others in his professional circles, even people who have worked with or known him for years, outside the bubble.

Thomas P. McDevitt, president of The Times, said the newspaper’s readers will miss Mr. Blankley.

“His columns were the first-read and always insightful. Tony’s love for America was amplified by his profound understanding of America’s founding principles, history and his rare ability to communicate with courage, wit and wisdom.

His love for America was only surpassed by his exemplary commitment as a husband and father.”

Coming out of our strategic process this year, we are committing ourselves to focus on something I want to share with you today -- something that has, with changing user behavior online, become crucial to the way we do news and do business.

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We have a group of people from around the AP who will be the steering committee on this, led by myself and Assistant Managing Editor Ted Anthony. And we'll be elaborating on this in an AP Knows at the beginning of next year.

This is a key way we can thrive in today’s landscape by using our own news and thinking chops -- the smarts we already have -- to take things forward. And, not incidentally, it’s going to be a lot of fun,too.

Mitt Romney: The clear winner. His supporters were never given a compelling reason to jump ship and he suffered no significant attacks.

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Rick Santorum: His best debate yet and it will help him solidify his position as the alternative to Romney. There were several times where he offered detail, facts, and numbers that really made me think to myself, “This is one smart guy.”

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Ron Paul: Out of everyone, he had the most “wow moments,” even when I disagreed with his answers. He was also more likeable than he ever has been and his response to Stephanopoulos’ question showed a real depth of knowledge that is impossible not to admire.

Mitt Romney remains the prohibitive favorite for the nomination. But Santorum’s brand of blue collar populism may force a valuable debate on economic issues.

Santorum opposed the Wall Street bailout, and he favors eliminating the corporate tax on manufacturing, in the hope that it will create some factory jobs. His dead-heat tie in Iowa was the product of hard work, the sort of retail politics that won’t be as important as a turbocharged primary schedule begins to roll.

But he has earned some respect for campaigning the old-fashioned way in Iowa — and, more important, for conducting a campaign, based on the central importance of strong families, that actually reflects the way he has lived his life.

The Israeli military attack the Gaza Ghetto, killing hundreds of women and children, in surprise air raids and armored assaults, in 2008, or was it in early '09?.

Reminiscent of the German assault in Warsaw, on the ghetto, there.

Then, in an act of bravado, the current Chief of the IDF, publicly states they are ready to go again, only this time, with more firepower.

While Harretz reports:

Were the UN committee's allegations to be accepted, it would mean that Israel committed outright war crimes, and that in the lack of any Israeli intention to prosecute its offenders, the international community has to intervene. Up to the present, the Palestinian Authority has not abandoned its effort to bring Operation Cast Lead war crime accusations to the International Court of Justice.

National Union's Uri Ariel says 'if a person who transfers information about IDF movements is a spy, then I am a spy'

National Union MK Uri Ariel confessed last week to giving Israeli settlers information on the Israel Defense Forces' movements, even before it was discovered Sunday that Likud MK and coalition chairman Ze'ev Elkin divulged similar information.

Ariel, during a Knesset committee meeting last Thursday, said that numerous times he had transferred information to settlers on IDF movements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.MK Uri Ariel Tess Scheflan / Jini

MK Uri Ariel.Photo by: Tess Scheflan / Jini

"If a person who transfers information about IDF movements is a spy, then I am a spy," Ariel said during a discussion on law enforcement in the settlements. "If others were arrested, I should be arrested as well."

Earlier Sunday, Haaretz revealed that Likud MK Ze'ev Elkin contacted right-wing activists to inform them of IDF movements in the West Bank.

Earlier in the day five right-wing extremists were charged by Jerusalem's District Prosecutor's Office with tracking Israel Defense Forces operations in the West Bank in an attempt to disrupt attempts to evacuate illegal outposts.

The five allegedly formed an intelligence hub based on telephone communications, utilizing 30 different sources, including active IDF service members.

However, the list of sources used by the activists and revealed to Haaretz indicated later Sunday that these sources also included right-wing Likud MK Ze'ev Elkin.

On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father, Mohammed Shurrab, and his two sons were returning home from their farm lands. It is not fair that the officer who then served as GOC Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces, Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant, will be the only one remembered on this anniversary. Indeed, the list of fighters who should be mentioned and recalled is long.

We will remember the pilot who delivered the bomb that killed Mahmoud al-Ghoul, a high-school student, and his uncle Akram, an attorney, at the family's home in northern Gaza. We will remember the soldiers who analyze photographs taken by drones, who decided that a truck conveying oxyacetylene cylinders for welding, owned by Ahmad Samur, was carrying Grad rockets - a decision that led to an order to bomb the vehicle from the air which, in turn, led to the deaths of eight persons, four of them minors.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.